Course Summary :

These 65 examples will make this cool-new-kid-on-the-block your steady, reliable friend

Let's parse that.

Scala is cool because its all the rage for big data applications, and because it manages to be more sophisticated and elegant than Java.

That said, Java is a steady, reliable friend - a language you can depend upon, and in which you can express yourself.

These 65 examples will help you trust Scala the way you trust Java. Each is self-contained, has its source code attached, and gets across a specific Scala use-case. Each example is simple, but not simplistic.

What's Included:

The Big Ideas: Before we get to the how, we better understand the why - this course will help clarify why we even need Scala when Java serves us so well

The Little Details That Matter: Pattern Matching, If Expressions, For Loops & Yield: Java has if-statements, while Scala has if-expressions. Differences like these matter, this course will cover them.

First Class Functions are perhaps the most dramatically new feature of Scala - the foundation of functional programming support.

Collections - Lists, Options, the Details of fold/reduce/shift in Scala are yet another bit of the language that differs significantly from other traditional object-oriented languages. We will spend a lot of time on these topics too.

Classes, Companion Objects, Traits, Self Types and Dependency Injection are Scala's way of providing Object Oriented support. Some of these concepts are similar to Java - those we will skim over. Others are quite different - we will be sure to cover these in detail.

What am I going to get from this course?

Use Scala with an intermediate level of proficiency

Read and understand Scala programs - including those with highly functional forms - written by others

Identify the similarities and differences between Java and Scala, and use both to their advantage

Pre-Requisites :

Basic knowledge of programming, ideally in Java or C#

The course will cover the installation of Scala - no worries on that front!

Target Audience :

Nope! Please don't enroll for this course if you are entirely new to programming

Yep! Please DO enroll for this course if you know Java and are now looking to learn Scala from first principles

Yep! Please DO enroll for this course if you are interested in learning functional programming concepts as embodied in Scala

Reviews

Instructor :

Loonycorn A 4-ppl team;ex-Google.

Biography

Loonycorn is us, Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh. Between the four of us, we have studied at Stanford, IIM Ahmedabad, the IITs and have spent years (decades, actually) working in tech, in the Bay Area, New York, Singapore and Bangalore. Janani: 7 years at Google (New York, Singapore); Studied at Stanford; also worked at Flipkart and Microsoft Vitthal: Also Google (Singapore) and studied at Stanford; Flipkart, Credit Suisse and INSEAD too Swetha: Early Flipkart employee, IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Madras alum Navdeep: longtime Flipkart employee too, and IIT Guwahati alum We think we might have hit upon a neat way of teaching complicated tech courses in a funny, practical, engaging way, which is why we are so excited to be here on Unanth! We hope you will try our offerings, and think you'll like them :-)

Reviews

Average Rating

5 (1 Reviews)

SIVAKUMAR GUPTA

posted 10 month before

Nicely explained

The course is explained in systematic way with nice examples. I understood the concepts taught. value for money.